Metallica/Lou Reed Performance Footage From Germany Available

Footage has been posted online of Lou Reed and Metallica performing "The View" and a cover of The Velvet Underground's "White Light/White Heat" live in Cologne, Germany on November 11th, 2011 during a live radio broadcast/webcast on 1LIVE radio. You can check out the clips below. Metallica and Lou Reed recently collaborated to release the "Lulu" album on November 1st, 2011.

THAT WAS AWESOME!! I watched every clip! It was sooo cool to see Lou and Meta....*Deep breath*Sorry, I can't do it. I just can't. I tried to be positive about this, but I simply cannot do it.

THIS. IS. AWFUL...

Close you eyes and listen to this. Seriously. It sounds like a garage band rehearsing while your best friend's alcoholic grandpa does his impression of Andy Rooney over it. Lard was playing way too fast. It's too fast when Lou had to strain to keep up with the words. Only James and Rob did their job well. I could actually hear James pronounce tablet instead of table. With all that top shelf equipment, you'd think a better would result. Lards' snare sounded even worse than normal. Did his drum tech not learn anything from the dark years under Bob Rock? I could tell through my sh**ty computer speakers that the bottom snare head wasn't tuned right. Sorry, but you don't tune a snare like a tom.

That was terrible. What a way to waste 11.11.11 That crowd must have been die hard Loutallica fans to give that kind of applause. I bet half the crowd has the Metallica throwing star logo tattooed on their a$$h0le.

absolute rubbish. Its not even radio rock - id change stations if this came on. Its actually more painful to listen to than top 50 music cause you know your gonna be listening to cr#p with it. These guys can make some of the best music in the world if the tried a bit harder but you just never know whats they are going to make next

One or two songs is cool, a whole album is self indulgent to the ones who are straight up Metallica fans. Anthrax's ''worship music" and Accept's " blood of the nations' will get me through to the next Metallica album. Experimenting and growing is fine and expected but keep it within the confines of the band. I can't wait for the new Lemmy /Slayer cd. Oh I forgot .Slayer's musical influences are in their music not on it.﻿

The last minute of The View after Lou shuts up is (not good, but) tolerable. For the rest of it, it kind of feels like a garage jam session where Metallica told Reed "We'll play something easy and you do whatever you want over the top of it" just for a bit of fun and a laugh. Then all of a sudden it was recorded and Metallica found themselves on stage having to try and sell it. You can clearly see Hammett looking at James through the performance going "Dude, whyyyyy??" and James looks back making the "I know, dude. I know. But we gotta make the best of it now" face. At least they tried to salvage something of the song after Lou quit yawning at his microphone. Still, I genuinely hope that Metallica are just trying to make the best of it and don't sincerely like this bollocks.